a few things

The world has been out there while I have been in here busily working with the wax. I'm working on the second model of my little erotica tryptic now. I might go back to the first and make a few minor adjustments judging by the way the shadows fell across it in the final picture but I want to be done with it. I can't make progress if I never finish. As my friend Kathy tells me when I point out the flaws in my work to her...”You're the only one who will ever see that.” So. This is one of my life lessons, letting go of the pursuit of perfectionism.

Ah, but if you don't seek perfection, how good is good enough?

We haven't started making the molds for casting yet. We're a little leery of using the water out here until we do some experimenting because it has a high sulphur content and sulphur reacts with other chemicals in the glass we use. We haven't been making molds yet because right now Marc's priority is getting the siding and roofing on the shop. To date, three sides are done.

I've been taking little breaks from my work and wandering the yard, picking up immature pecans. I do this, pick up the immature pecans, because I like to go barefoot and I also hope that by picking up the bad ones now, I'll reduce my percentage of bad ones when the ripe ones start to fall. We'll see.

It must be the time for babies because I keep seeing baby things. I saw a little praying mantis. I've seen tiny lizards, just hatched, hanging around the moonflower vine. I mentioned before that there were baby toads everywhere. Every step you take at least one or two little baby toads hop away.

When Marc picked up the last sheet in the stack of metal that was laying on the ground, he disturbed some voles. They had built a little nest under the stack and it had five (that I could see) babies in it. Those little guys are maybe an inch long. I found a piece of the sheet metal that was scrap and covered it back up.

We're making a little foray into town tomorrow. I have some business to take care of, measurements for a job and a presentation and a little g'kid exposure. And then my brother is coming in town this weekend and is going to give us all plane rides.